Laughing Under the Clouds

About Laughing Under the Clouds

When swords were outlawed in the eleventh year of the Meiji era, the mighty samurai population began to dwindle. Those who rejected the ban on blades rebelled, causing violent unrest to erupt throughout the countryside.

Laughing Under the Clouds is an action-adventure, animation, and science fiction series that ran on Nippon TV and AT-X. Its themes are slapstick comedy, ninja, samurai, and swordplay.

It ran for one season of 12 episodes between October 2014 and December 2014.

Yuki Kaji appears as Soramaru Kumo (voice), Yuichi Nakamura as Tenka Kumo (voice), Takahiro Sakurai as Shirasu Kinjo (voice), and Tsubasa Yonaga as Chutaro Kumo (voice). It is adapted from a manga.

In the United States it streams on Crunchyroll Amazon Channel. Dororo, Noragami, and Natsume's Book of Friends make useful companions to Laughing Under the Clouds, all filed under historical and based on manga.